Michael Walsh

Michael Walsh is a writer and broadcaster. He was <a href=http://www.heythrop.ac.uk/faculty/library/walshm/walshm.htm target=_blank>librarian</a> at Heythrop College from 1972 to 2001. Michael Walsh i

From Joseph Ratzinger to Pope Benedict XVI

Pope John Paul II, it was often remarked in his last few months, appointed almost all of the cardinals who were to elect his successor. Of those who gathered in

By Michael Walsh

/ 19 Apr 2005

Cutting the Vatican down to size

The long papacy of John Paul II has ended. How will his successor be chosen, and what light does the process cast upon the way the Roman Catholic Church is

By Michael Walsh

/ 4 Apr 2005